Banned term on Adwords - how does competitor fool Google?

[andrew phillips]

Interesting one:

A competitor of ours is advertising on Google Adwords under a ‘banned term’ although no matter how much we try we are unable to do so.

For argument sake lets say the banned term is the phrase ‘banned term’.

I have tried to fool the Adwords computer by placing words in between the keyword like this: banned term, banned random word term. I also tried banned+term, banned-term and banned’ term’ but to no avail. I don’t know how he is fooling the Adwords database.

If you could crack this one it would be much appreciated and very impressive.

Kindest regards to you all.

[buckworks]

Perhaps they're only bidding on "banned"? Or "term"?

[andrew phillips]

Tried that is does not work. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[johannes]

I had several keywords disapproved because they contained a well known brand name. But they forgot one of those keywords and I was able to keep it for months. Can't say why they missed one, I was just lucky.
Don't have any tips for you though.

[andrew phillips]

Think I figured it out. He just put the words in reverse order. i.e. term banned

there you go all!

[buckworks]

I had several keywords disapproved because they contained a well known brand name.

Ironically, the suggestion tool actually suggests well known brand names!

[phidentity]

Ok now this is very scary.

I am the named competitor, I believe.

Jon